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From: jel@portal.UUcp (John Little)
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Subject: Re: ELXSI System 6400 .... Information needed
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Date: Wed, 18-Jun-86 12:35:21 EDT
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Summary: Question about Elexi

In article <1946@calmasd.CALMA.UUCP>, rfc@calmasd.CALMA.UUCP (Robert Clayton) writes:
> a 10 processor test at Sandia Labs they got 10.1X the power of a single
> processor.  

This is an interesting trick. Does anyone have a clue about how they
got a greater than linear speedup?  Was this a cpu benchmark or did
it include i/o?  Can I program my single processor to emulate a
multiprocessor configuration and get increased performance :-) ?

John Little
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